Reading round-up: AI AI і менеджмент

Published on March 19, 2026

The Great Enshittification of Software
A junior developer with bad instincts had a natural speed limit: they couldn’t build fast enough to bury the codebase before someone noticed. The agent can keep piling crap on top of more crap, indefinitely, and stay productive the entire time.

"The engineer needs to stop typing and start thinking."

Building AI Engineering Culture
1/ Smaller teams mean everyone must own more. You own every feature from requirement gathering through to production. The "I just write code" era is over.
2/ No design-to-dev handoff. No PM-to-engineering handoff. No QA as a separate gate. Everyone ships.
3/ Reaching $100M ARR historically required 500–1,500 employees in the 2000s, 200–500 in the 2010s, and now fewer than 100 in the AI era.

Management In The Age Of AI
"gap between good management and bad management got a whole lot wider thanks to AI."

Zen of AI coding
1/ The highest leverage work is what unblocks shipping
2/ Making imperfect decisions is no longer fatal
3/ Repaying technical debt is now cheap
4/ Good tests are the first feedback loop. CI access and server logs is second
5/ The constraint is no longer tokens. It is cognition

The Brand Age
Напевно ессе Пола, яке зайшло найбільше з новеньких. “Go where interesting problems are”.

Avoiding a Culture of Emergencies
"One of the dumbest form of emergencies is simple underestimation of the amount of effort required to get a team’s projects done."

Why does DocuSign has 7,000 employees
Everything is hard when you reach global scale.